A development group's proposal to bring an Olympic-class bicycle arena to South Philadelphia's historic Franklin D. Roosevelt Park has met with resistance from the city Commission on Parks and Recreation, which handed the group its first negative...

I grew up in Washington, D.C., during World War II and remember the fear and anxiety of that time. The threat was real because we knew what was happening at home and overseas.The difference between then and now is leadership. Then we had...

Most presidential campaigns focus mostly on domestic issues such as the economy, taxes and health care, not foreign policy. But the 2016 presidential campaign is already shaping up to be an exception to that rule.
For one thing, the world is a mess....

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday that passage of a higher minimum wage in Pennsylvania is one of his priorities in the current legislative session.
Wolf said he backs a bill sponsored by Rep. Patty Kim, a Dauphin County Democrat, to boost the...

Speaking before the World Economic Forum in Switzerland last month, Secretary of State John Kerry described global terrorism as "nothing more than criminal anarchy, a nihilism which illegitimately claims an ideological and religious foundation."...

Much chatter amid even more controversy has met the news that Mitt Romney may be running again for president. Whether he should or shouldn't, whether he will or won't are questions to be answered over the next several months. But we don't have to wait...

A 13-year-old Bristol Township girl will be charged for allegedly distributing a sexually explicit video involving two minors among middle school students last month.
Acting Bristol Township Police Chief Ralph Johnson confirmed the arrest. He did not...

In 1971, two years after leaving the White House, Lyndon Johnson dedicated his sleek, windowless eight-story presidential library at the University of Texas. But in the pages of The Washington Post, editorial cartoonist Herblock depicted Johnson as an...

How precious in the sight of progressives was one of their saints, Mario Cuomo, the three-term governor of New York who died last week at age 82. He was a model of progressivism and a gifted rhetorician.In most media accounts, references were made to...

Lyndon B. Johnson loved to drink and drive (and at a high rate of speed) in his Lincoln Continental.
Richard Nixon was known to drunk-dial major political figures late at night from the White House.
And Franklin D. Roosevelt, while president, once hid...

Bristol Township officials and Bucks County detectives are working to find the source of a sexually explicit video circulating among Franklin D. Roosevelt Middle School students, Bristol Township Lt. Terry Hughes said during a brief press conference...

Bristol Township police are investigating a report of a sexually explicit video involving two juveniles circulating among students at a local middle school.Students at Franklin D. Roosevelt Middle School were allegedly sharing the video depicting...

A counterculture musical based on a 1936 anti-pot propaganda film might seem like an unusual choice for a student-run production at a university.
But Lehigh University student Emma Gifford says the outrageous tongue-in-cheek "Reefer Madness" is...

President Barack Obama is now officially a lame duck: no more elections left, and facing GOP majorities in the Senate, House, governors' mansions and even the Supreme Court, in a sense, where five of the nine justices were appointed by Republicans. But...

A counterculture musical based on a 1936 anti-pot propaganda film might seem like an unusual choice for a student-run production at a university.
But Lehigh University student Emma Gifford says the outrageous tongue-in-cheek "Reefer Madness" is...

There's a lot of dead time at Thanksgiving, particularly if you're not a football fan.
Family gatherings tend to be full of ne'er-do-wells who have nothing to contribute and spend the time watching TV, napping or annoying the cooks. I know, because I'm...

Almost 75 years ago, my Irish grandmother, Nellie Loftus Foley, sent three of her four sons off to fight in what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called the war for the "four freedoms." My father, the baby of the family, recalls that it was...

NEW YORK — A man who zoomed a sports car around Manhattan in 24 minutes, reaching speeds of about 100 miles per hour, was found guilty on Thursday of reckless endangerment and reckless driving, prosecutors said.
Adam Tang, 31, who has a Canadian...

Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken died in 1956 at the age of 75.
Mencken has been referred to as the "Sage of Baltimore". Primarily, Mencken was a journalist. For most of his career, he was a reporter and a columnist for The Baltimore...